Parents and students, prepare to get shot — with paintballs. Campus Recreation is sponsoring a free paintball event Friday, Oct. 9 from 3-7 p.m. at Hayden Park. “It’s just a free-for-all paintball day. Come when you want to, and paintball it up,” said senior Rachael Hille, co-director of Campus Health and Recreation. The event is...
C.S. Lewis organized his classic children’s series “The Chronicles of Narnia” around the pre-Copernican medieval concept of a universe with seven heavens, according to Michael Ward, a senior research fellow at Oxford University and author of “Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis.” “Lewis’s best-known works, the seven Chronicles of Narnia,...
Despite charges from Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) that Hillsdale College’s absence from the Department of Education’s new College Scorecard may suggest a threat to the school’s accreditation, the agency refused to back away from its previous statements about the college, including the incorrect claim that Hillsdale does not offer bachelor’s degrees. “Our previous comment stands,”...
Minnie Churchill is the granddaughter-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill and the Director of Churchill Heritage. She has spent the last six years locating the approximately 500 paintings Sir Winston made. She spoke on campus this week at the Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar. Could you describe the day you first met Sir Winston Churchill? I...
After more than a half-century of publishing Hillsdale students’ creative writing, the Tower Light is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a reunion during homecoming weekend. Amid the return of many other students and alumni, both the founder of the Tower Light, Rich Hill, and Kjerstin Kauffman ’09, who has her master’s degree in poetry from...